By Candy Gourlay From my Facebook page This morning I woke up to helicopters circling nearby Finsbury Park where a van had plowed into w...

By Candy Gourlay Candy and Miguel Last night, I met Miguel Syjuco, a Filipino journalist and author who won the Man Asian Booker Prize...

By Candy Gourlay A few weeks ago, I received this mind-blowing video from Miriam College Middle School created by readers of my book Tall ...

One of the things that really made me think  at the recent Emirates Festival of Literature in Dubai was hearing an Emirati speak about how h...

By Candy Gourlay I posted this on my Facebook Page on 2 March 2017 What happens if you’ve never seen yourself in a mirror and only ever...

I interviewed New York Times bestselling author Mo O'Hara ( My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish ) on Facebook Live for SCBWI in the British Isl...

 Happy World Book Day er Week! Here's something I posted on my Facebook Page on 25 February 2017. With World Book Day at hand, schoo...

By Candy Gourlay Posted this note on my Facebook author page today This photo crops up on my timeline on the anniversary of the 1986 ...

By Candy Gourlay @candygourlay This time last year I guested on Luna's Little Library Diversity Month . Here's the piece I wrote...

By Candy Gourlay It's Filipino American History Month! I didn't know this until @sueYAHollywood referenced books by me and my fell...

By Candy Gourlay This article was first published last year in  Our Book Reviews . With warm thanks to the UKMG Extravaganza Book Tour an...

By Candy Gourlay I was thrilled to hear that Shine was one of the five books chosen for The Gr8 Book Debate , held between Ridgeway Sc...

By Candy Gourlay So my friend, the author Tommy Donbavand , is having a terrible, terrible time at the moment . His illness means he's...

By Candy Gourlay Last week's referendum has revealed us to be a divided society here in Britain. Watching jubilant Leave voters on TV ...

By Candy Gourlay  One of the best compliments I've ever received after a school visit! Also loved this one saying that my Powerp...

The Chichester Literary Quiz 2016 from Candy Gourlay Here is a photo-report of the shenanigans we got up to at the Chichester Lit Qu...

By Candy Gourlay With happy readers at King Alfred School yesterday. 

I made a resolution this year to document more of the events I attend on my blog. I'm now behind by a month, but hey, better late than n...

By Candy Gourlay My Facebook feed from the Philippines has been awash with throwback photos of the People Power  revolution. It made me a ...

World Book Day is fast approaching and I'm excited to say my days are going to be packed with school visits --  I can't wait! It...

By Candy Gourlay I visited Ormiston Bushfield School in Peterborough yesterday as part of the Pop Up Schools Programme . I wore these ...

Hello, readers! I'm just back from a research trip to the Philippines with an SD card packed full of amazing photographs. As you may k...

Dear Readers, Today, I woke up at four in the morning and marched up to a summit where I saw this. Watching the sun rise over Maligcon...

Letty waving my book around during the 2014 launch of SHINE in Manila. On Christmas Eve, I was shocked and upset to hear that my lifelon...